Improved clothes-wringer



PATENT OEEIcE.

HENRY W. PUTNAM, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

IMPROVED CLOTH ES-WRINGER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 33,960, dated December 17, 1861.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. PUTNAM, of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothes'Wringers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and complete description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view, and Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are sections.

Like letters refer to like parts.

The nature of my invention relates to the form of the side pieces, their position in re lation to each other, the manner of securing the rollers in their respective positions, the mode of fastening the two side pieces together, and the devices for securing the press to the tub.

The rollers A A' are made of vulcanized rubber, as is common with these machines. The lower ends of the side pieces B B' embrace the edge of the wash-tub, the arm B being upon the inside and the arm B' upon the outside. To this outside arm is attached a semicircular ratchet C.

D is a cam secured to the middle portion of the lower half of the arm B. The handle E of the cam D serves the purpose of a pawl by bringing the point F into any of the notches in the ratchet, and by this means the machine is secured to the edge of the tub bythe pressure of the cam against the outside of the tub.

The faces of the arms B B' diverge from each other, as seen in Fig. l, so that the outer edge of the arm B may tit the inside ot' the tub.

The fulcrum of the cams D consists of a rod G, curved so as to not come in contact with the outside of the tub, and is secured at the ends respectively to the arms B' B', either by a nut or by riveting,

From t-he upper end of the arms B rise the hollow cylindrical standards H H. Through the base of these atI is drilled a hole for the reception of the shaft of the roller A. Above this base the cylinder is hollow, as seen in Fig. 2, and also as seen at H H in Fig. 3, which is a cross-section. These standards are slit. or open on the sides facing each other, as seen in Fig. 3, for the purpose of allowing the journals ot' the roller A' to move up and down. The journals of the roller A' are secured in solid cylindrical boxes K, Figs. 2

and 3, the external diameters of which are such that they will slide up and down in the hollow of the upright H. The position is seen at K', Fig. 2, when the rollers are in contact. These boxes are pressed downward, together with the rollers, by means of spiral springs L, (seen in section, Fig. 2,) the lower end of which rests upon the box K, as at K', the upper end resting against the under side of the cross-bar M, Figs. l and 3, each end of which hooks upward, as at N, Figs. l and 3, and passes through the mortise C in each of the upper ends of the uprights H, and in this manner holds the upper ends of the standards B together.

In pressing the water from the clothes after being washed by means of the crank P the rollers are turned in the direction of the arrows in Fig. l, the rinsing-water all flows back into the tub, and the clothes are delivered into a basket on the outside.

Vhat I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The herein-described side pieces B B H, constructed as specified, in combination with the cross-bar M, ratchets C, and cams D, ar ranged and operating as and for the purpose set forth.

HENRY W. PUTNAM.

Witnesses:

S. H. MARTIN, J. BRAINEED. 

